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 Oct. 



"The Birds of the Weddell and Adjacent Seas, 

 Antarctic Ocean " is an article by Mr. Wm. Eagle Clarke in 

 Tlie Ibis (April, 1907) that will interest Australian readers. It is 

 an instalment (the third) of the ornithological results of the voyage 

 of the Scotia (Scottish National Antarctic Expedition), dealing 

 with the bird-life observed in the Antarctic southward of the 

 60th parallel of south latitude. The following Australian sea- 

 birds are mentioned at length : — Oceanites oceayiicus (Yellow- 

 webbed Storm-Petrel), Priocella glacialoides (Silvery-grey Petrel), 

 Ossifraga gigantea (Giant Petrel), Daption capensis (Cape 

 Petrel), Halobcena ccsrulea (Blue Petrel), Prion banksi (Banks 

 Dove-Petrel), Diojnedea exulans (Wandering Albatross), and 

 Phoebetria cornicoides (Sooty Albatross). The last-mentioned is 

 especially interesting because a second Sooty Albatross was 

 described as far back as 1867 by the late Capt. F. W. Hutton. 

 The Hutton Sooty Albatross, Mr. Clarke is of opinion, should 

 take "full specific rank." It is the common New Zealand form, 

 and breeds at the Auckland and Antipodes Islands, also on 



Macquarie Island.* 



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Eggs of Cacomantis insperatus. — The eggs of the Brush 

 Cuckoo of Gould's folio edition of " The Birds of Australia " 

 were unusually common last season on the highlands of the 

 Milson's Point railway line. Mr. A. A. Johnston took no less 

 than seven eggs in as many nests of Rhipidura albiscapa. One 

 nest 4 feet from the ground, that he had to lift the bird off, 

 revealed no eggs of the Brush Cuckoo and one q.%^ of Rhipidura 

 albiscapa. This was on the 24th November, 1906. The nest of 

 this pair of birds he took again on the 9th January, 1907, when 

 it contained two eggs of the White-shafted Fantail and one egg 

 of the Brush Cuckoo. On the 5th January, 1907, he took a nest 

 of Malurus laniberti with two eggs, also an egg of the Brush 

 Cuckoo, which is the first time I have known the egg of this 

 Cuckoo to be found in the nest of this species. Four fresh eggs 

 were taken from a nest of the same pair of birds on the i6th 

 January, and two eggs of Lambert's Superb Warbler from the 

 third nest of this pair of birds on the 29th January, 1907, also 

 an egg of the Brush Cuckoo. On the i8th November, 1906, 

 Mr. Johnston took a nest of Myiagra rubecula, containing two 

 eggs of that species, also an egg of the Brush Cuckoo. — A. J. 

 North, Records of the Australian Museum, vol. vi., part 5. 

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Birds of the Gulf of Carpentaria Region. — In The 

 Ibis for July, 1907, Mr. Collingwood Ingram, F.Z.S., contributes 

 an article of importance to Australians " On the Birds of the 



* See Sooty Albatross, "Nests and Eggs Australian Birds," pp. 937, 938 

 (Campbell). — Eds. 



